Help with Possible Mask Bug in CF8

When letting a user edit their PRICE field at my website, I
populate the field with the VALUE attribute (as seen below) using a
MASK:
<CFINPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="price" VALUE="#price#" SIZE="7"
MAXLENGTH="7" MASK="9999999">Enter your price
<B>without</B> decimals, cents, or dollar signs.
Examples: 45, 1, 17900.
However, when pulling the number from the database, CF8 will
add trailing zeros to the number!!!!
For example: if #price# equals 25, the value populated in the
field is 2500000!!!
Is this a bug? When I reamove the mask, it works fine. It's
not doing this on my CF 4.5 (installed on my own server). I am
using a paid providers' CF8.
If it is a bug, how would I fix this and how do you report a
bug? This is the 2nd one I found using CF8 (the other was
Validate="integer" actually allows "$" as an integer ...also "$$$"
and "$454$3$$3$", etc.)
-Tony

tony17112acst wrote:
> Is this a bug? It's not doing this on my CF 4.5
(installed on my own server).
hmm... the 'mask' attribute was introduced in CFMX7...
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

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